Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist is an American political philosopher and economist at Georgetown University-Qatar. He is best known as an advocate of basic income, but is also an interdisciplinary academic writer who has published in journals in fields as diverse as economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology. He is a consistent critic of propertarianism (also known as right-libertarianism or libertarianism), Social Contract Theory, and the Lockean proviso. He is the co-founder if the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network, which was the first Basic Income network in the United States. He has been the co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) since 2008, and he co-founded Basic Income News in 2011. He has been a commentator on several television, radio, and print networks.

According to his BIEN profile, Karl Widerquist was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1965 and grew up in Cassopolis, Michigan when his family moved there in 1969. He completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1987. For several years, Widerquist pursued both music and economics. He was the original bass player for Michael McDermott, and played in several indie bands in New York in the 1990s.

Widerquist completed a Ph.D. in economics at the City University of New York in 1996, later working at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and the Educational Priorities Panel. He was a Hoover Fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain where he worked with Philippe Van Parijs.

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